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Enter it if up the spout? Is she now a mummy? (9)

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I believe the answer is:

nefertiti

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'spout? is she now a mummy?' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'enter it if up' is the wordplay.
'up' indicates an anagram (letters get chucked up).
'enter'+'it'+'if'='enteritif'
'enteritif' is an anagram of 'NEFERTITI'.

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(Other definitions for nefertiti that I've seen before include "Egyptian beauty queen" , "Egyptian queen, the wife of Akhenaton" , "old queen" , "Beautiful queen who ruled Egypt with the Pharaoh" , "Oddly, the Egyptian queen is an entire fit" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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